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How Are Marine Robots Shaping Our Future?

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By: James Bellingham(Author), Claudia Geib(Author)
264 pages, 8 b/w illustrations
How Are Marine Robots Shaping Our Future?
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What will robots discover as they gather life-supporting data and resources from the depths of Earth's oceans to the reaches of deep space?

Below the waves, the ocean remains a largely undiscovered realm, with only 25% of its features mapped in detail. What we know about its depths, we've learned with the help of deep-sea robots. The latest generation of their technologies play a critical role as we tap the ocean in new ways to sustain our food, energy, and resource needs. World-renowned robotics expert James Bellingham introduces readers to this compelling world of contemporary undersea exploration and the vital role autonomous robots play in corporate and governmental aquaculture management, climate data, energy source locations, shipwreck explorations, and much more.

Bellingham, an inventor who has led dozens of expeditions from the Arctic to the Antarctic, discusses how deep-sea research using autonomous underwater vehicles and drones can translate into future missions, including the exploration of oceans on other planets and their moons. These forbidding environments are difficult to access and are not easily conducive to life, making robots that can move, explore, and collect data – without the need for crews – critically important for research and the development of essential industries that support our survival.

Exploration robotics works on three frontiers simultaneously: scientific discovery, advanced technology, and extreme environments. Bellingham shares harrowing anecdotes from his work on all three, including weathering storms off the Antarctic Peninsula, breaking new ground in designing and deploying ocean robots that think and navigate for themselves, and seeing the ocean in a new light through the eyes of these technological proxies. Along the way, readers will develop a newfound appreciation for how robots are transforming exploration – and what these voyages mean for the future of humanity.

The more marine robotics extend our physical and intellectual capacities, the more they challenge us to redefine what it means to coexist with the world around us. The real revolution is just beginning, lying in how these machines will transform our understanding of our environments – allowing us to balance discovery with stewardship by supporting a thriving human society while safeguarding the ecosystems we depend on.

Contents

Preface
1. The Challenge of Searching the Seas
2. Opening the Door
3. Teamwork
4. The Living Ocean
5. The Ocean in Our Kitchens
6. Powered by the Ocean
7. Oceans Across the Solar System
8. Could Deep Sea Robots Discover Life in Deep Space?
Epilogue

Acknowledgments

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Biography

James Bellingham, PhD, is the executive director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy and the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of exploration robotics. For more than 30 years, Bellingham has served as a global leader in the development of small, high-performance autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), introducing and refining a class of systems that are now widely used within the military, commercial industries, and science communities. He has been instrumental in innovations for ocean observation and has spent considerable time at sea, leading two dozen AUV expeditions in locations across the Antarctic, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, South Pacific, and Arctic. Bellingham previously led robotics teams at MIT, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.

Claudia Geib is a science journalist, editor, and the producer of the podcast Gastropod. She is also the author of Secrets of the Elephants. Her reporting, focusing on marine, environmental, and wildlife science, can be found in Nautilus, The Guardian, and WIRED, among others, and has been featured in The Best American Science Writing.

Coming Soon
By: James Bellingham(Author), Claudia Geib(Author)
264 pages, 8 b/w illustrations
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